Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a friend that is a retired newspaper photog. He began like all shooting Nikon, but as he aged, he found problems with the VF, and this was in the MF days, so no AF to cover his butt. He traded it all off on an R something for the brighter finder, and spent another ten or so years at the paper. Bill Pearce ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: Nikon AR-1 soft release > > On Jul 14, 2012, at 11:12 AM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > >> That is one of the reasons i prefer using the R8DMR to my newer D700, or >> my F3HP (which has not been used, except to exercise the shutter every >> once in a while), in over 8 years. >> >> Gene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert Meier" <robertmeier at usjet.net> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 11:04:52 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: Nikon AR-1 soft release >> >> F's are better in memory than in person. Last night I was comparing the >> view through my F2a and F3 with 50/1.4 lenses on them to the view through >> my R8 with a 50/2 lens on it. The R8 was considerably brighter, in >> spite of the slower lens, and MUCH clearer, cleaner, and sharper. I >> think I'm going to sell my Nikons. > > I wanted to shoot the 12.5 Photar on the full frame 5D > but with the extreme bellows factor > I literally can hardly see through the view finder > even at f:1.9 > > The R8 is clear even fully stopped down. > > It's really depressing that N and C have such poor finders. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information